Shawn L. Bird

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quote- Mary Oliver on poems February 9, 2014

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“Poems must…be written in emotional freedom.  Moreover, poems are not language but the content of the language.  And yet, how can the content by separated from the poem’s fluid and breathing body?”

Mary Oliver A Poetry Handbook p. 3